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Boil :: Boil (v.) To be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves..

Bouillon :: Bouillon (n.) A nutritious liquid food made by boiling beef, or other meat, in water; a clear soup or broth..

Steam :: Steam (n.) The elastic, aeriform fluid into which water is converted when heated to the boiling points; water in the state of vapor..

Feeder :: Feeder (n.) A device for supplying steam boilers with water as needed.

Decoctible :: Decoctible (a.) Capable of being boiled or digested.

Estuary :: Estuary (n.) A place where water boils up; a spring that wells forth.

Rise :: Rise (v.) To become larger; to swell; -- said of a boil, tumor, and the like..

Gather :: Gather (v. i.) To concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus; as, a boil has gathered..

Coddle :: Coddle (v. t.) To parboil, or soften by boiling..

Bullition :: Bullition (v. i.) The action of boiling; boiling. [Obs.] See Ebullition.

Unrivet :: Unrivet (v. t.) To take out, or loose, the rivets of; as, to unrivet boiler plates..

Generator :: Generator (n.) An apparatus in which vapor or gas is formed from a liquid or solid by means of heat or chemical process, as a steam boiler, gas retort, or vessel for generating carbonic acid gas, etc..

Bullary :: Bullary (n.) A place for boiling or preparing salt; a boilery.

Economizer :: Economizer (n.) Specifically: (Steam Boilers) An arrangement of pipes for heating feed water by waste heat in the gases passing to the chimney.

Broth :: Broth (n.) Liquid in which flesh (and sometimes other substances, as barley or rice) has been boiled; thin or simple soup..

Decoct :: Decoct (v. t.) To warm, strengthen, or invigorate, as if by boiling..

Burst :: Burst (v. i.) To fly apart or in pieces; of break open; to yield to force or pressure, especially to a sudden and violent exertion of force, or to pressure from within; to explode; as, the boiler had burst; the buds will burst in spring..

Expansion :: Expansion (n.) The operation of steam in a cylinder after its communication with the boiler has been cut off, by which it continues to exert pressure upon the moving piston..

Collapse :: Collapse (v. i.) To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall in together, or be crushed in together; as, a flue in the boiler of a steam engine sometimes collapses..

Walm :: Walm (v. i.) To roll; to spout; to boil up.

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